SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE

Lot 225
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SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE
Approximately 25 letters or documents and 60 photographs, 1940-1947. Certified copies of telegrams and service orders from Colonel Leclerc, commander of the Régiment de Tirailleurs sénégalais du Tchad (1940-1941). Logbook of the 1st battalion of marine fusiliers of the Free French Naval Forces (30 December 1941-30 December 1942): Libyan campaign (Bir Hakeim). Rationing tickets. Certificates of the Resistance group Patriam recuperare. Prospectus and programme (illustrated by Paul Colin) for a gala organised by L'Étoile, a mutual aid society for maitres d'hôtel, waiters, waiters and hunters, for the benefit of its prisoners of war, 16 May 1944 (signed by Charpini, Fernandel, G. Guétary, Florelle, P. Meurisse...). Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honour with photo of soldier. Etc. Silver photographs (AFP, BBC, L.A.P.I., Ministries of War and Information, etc.): patrol in the ruins of Bizerte; military operating theatre in Tunisia; artillerymen at Bir Hakeim; troops at rest with their chaplain in the Black Forest, etc.; scenes of the Liberation of Paris and the victory parade; General De Gaulle; exhumation of Resistance fighters' bodies from the mass grave of Vincennes Fort; General Brosset's funeral; meeting of the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance; Fritz Sauckel in his cell in Nuremberg; ceremony of taking up arms; troops leaving for Indochina, etc.
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